What happened, and what might have happened?

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do batteries run on?